Let it be the news of the day that the Americans will stay, and the intelligence of the city would regard its redemption as assured, every drooping interest revive, and an era of prosperity unknown under the dismal incompetency of Spain, open at once.  It is legitimate that there should be freedom of speech as to the details of the proceedings.  If our Government should do what Admiral Dewey did when he was the master of Manila, because he had annihilated the Spanish fleet and had the power to destroy the city—­cast anchor and stay where we are already in command—­the task is neither so complex nor costly as its opponents claim.  Our territorial system is one easy of application to colonies.  We have had experience of it from the first days of our Government.  There is no commandment that a Territory shall become a State in any given time, or ever.  We can hold back a Territory, as we have Arizona and New Mexico, or hasten the change to Statehood according to the conditions, and the perfect movement of the machinery requires only the presence in Congress of dominant good sense.  Congress is easily denounced, but no one has found a substitute for it, and it is fairly representative of the country.  Congress will never gamble away the inheritance of the people.  It will probably, in spite of all shortcomings, have its average of ability and utility kept up.  Congress may go wrong, but will not betray.  Our outlying possessions must be Territories until they are Americanized, and we take it Americans know what that word means.  If a specification is wanted as a definition, we have to say the meaning is just what has happened in California since our flag was there.  In the case of the Philippines, if we stick, and we do not see how we can help doing so, the President will, in regular course, appoint a Territorial Governor, and as a strong Government capable of quick and final decisions must be made, the Governor should be a military man, and have a liberal grant, by special Act of Congress, of military authority.  He should be a prompt, and all around competent administrator.  He will not have to carry on war offensive or defensive.  He need not be in a hurry to go far from Manila.  He will not be molested there.  The country will gravitate to him.  The opponents of the Republican form of Government, as it is in the United States and the Territories of the Nation will become insignificant in the Philippines.  They will have no grievances, except some of them may not be called at once to put on the trappings of personal potentiality.  General Aguinaldo would find all the reforms the Spanish promised when they paid him four hundred thousand dollars to prove their good intentions, free as the air.  He could not make war against the benignancy of a Government, Republican in its form and its nature, which simply needs a little time, some years maybe, before erasing the wrongs that have had a growth of centuries.  The American Governor-General need not send out troops